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By the end of the Dunkirk retreat, the British Navy's light cruisers had been sunk 17 (the big ones were bombed first), almost all of the fighters had been sunk, 19 destroyers had been sunk, 16 other ships that had helped the evacuation had also been sunk, the total number of dead and missing in the Royal Navy exceeded 10,000, and more than 100,000 British and French troops had sunk into the sea with the ships

In addition, as in history, during the Dunkirk retreat, all the heavy equipment of the 400,000 British and French troops was discarded, and after the retreat to the UK, the remaining 250,000 British and French troops were left with rifles and hundreds of machine guns and other light weapons, and they lost at least 1,200 cannons, 750 anti-aircraft guns, 500 anti-tank guns, 63,000 vehicles, 75,000 motorcycles, 700 tanks, 21,000 machine guns, 6,400 anti-tank guns, and 500,000 tons of military supplies to the Germans

In a sense, the Dunkirk retreat in this time and space is equivalent to the Allies exchanging huge losses of the Navy and Air Force for 250,000 land forces, although the casualties are relatively few, but the comprehensive combat power has lost a lot, of course, Britain does not lack industrial power and money, but also lacks manpower, so this operation cannot be said to be a complete failure. However, in any case, the losses of the Dunkirk retreat were still too great, and they were obviously much worse than the historical battle of the same name, and the total casualties of the naval and air forces of the two sides set a new record in the history of human warfare, so that the officers and men of the naval and air forces of both sides secretly called it the "Dunkirk meat grinder"

At the same time as the Great Retreat from Dunkirk. The new commander of the French army, Maxim. Weygand cobbled together 51 divisions plus 3 British divisions to form 3 corps (6th, 7th, and 10th corps) to form the Weygand Line, which was about 500 kilometers long from east to west, along the Somme and Aisne rivers, and defended the Maginot Line with 19 divisions. The two lines of defense were linked together in an attempt to prevent the main German forces from moving south.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France, the German High Command quickly formulated the second phase of the French Campaign, codenamed the Red Plan. This plan called for the Germans to move south and defeat the French completely. The strength of the German army reached as many as 153 divisions, and its two armies, A and B, were quickly reorganized. Bock's Army Group B (with 18 panzer divisions) as the right flank and made a breakthrough to the front of the Somme; Rundstedt's Army Group A, with 9 panzer divisions, was on the left flank and made a frontal assault on the Aisne.

On August 3, 1941, the Luftwaffe launched a heavy bombardment of French airfields and rear. Dawn on August 5, 1941. Bock's Army Group B took the lead in launching a full-front offensive on the right flank. Since France's only armored army has been completely wiped out, the British army's all-armored forces are only divisional at the highest, and at the same time, the tank performance is not comparable with the German Panthers at all, and the air supremacy is in the hands of Germany. The results can be imagined

That day. Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, which was equipped with new tanks and armored vehicles such as the Panthers, crossed the Somme first. August 7, 1941. Rommel's division cut off the French 10th Army defending the Abwey-Amiens line, and the rest of the German divisions were able to advance through this gap. On August 8, 1941, Rommel's division reached the banks of the Seine. August 10, 1941. Rommel turned north again, and rushed 80 kilometers in one go, aiming for the coastline. It reached its destination that night, cutting off the retreat of the French 9th Army and the British 51st Division, which were retreating towards the coast. These troops were forced to surrender to Rommel on August 12, 1941.

After the attack of Army Group B, the Army Group A of Rundstet on the left flank also launched a river crossing offensive on the Aisne River on August 9, 1941, and on the same night, the 1st Panzer Division of Guderian's Armored Corps forced the crossing of the Aisne River, and on August 10, 1941, Guderian's Corps defeated the French armored forces and broke through the right flank of the French 6th Army Corps. Hordes of French prisoners threw their guns at the Germans and crushed them under the tanks.

On August 17, 1941, Gudri installed the armoured corps into the Swiss border town of Pantarir, cutting off the retreat of the French troops from the Maginot Line to Switzerland. Since the forcible crossing of the Aisne River, Gudeli's armored corps has driven more than 400 kilometers in 10 days, capturing as many as 300,000 French troops, creating a miracle in the history of warfare.

On August 10, 1941, the French government withdrew from Paris and moved to Tours. On the same day, Italy took advantage of the fire and plundered and declared war on France, although it was easily repulsed by the local French troops, but the addition of an enemy as an industrial country was still a great blow to the French will to resist. On the 13th, Paris was declared an undefended city. On the 14th, when the French government moved to Bordeaux, the Germans occupied Paris without firing a single shot.

When the Germans entered Paris, the French government collapsed and was divided. The pacifist government formed by Marshal Pétain in Vichy advocated compromise and surrender, while Charles insisted on resisting to the end. De Gaulle, with the help of the British ambassador, ventured to board a plane at night, fled to London under the escort of a squadron of mosquitoes, and then formed a "Free France" government in exile with the support of Churchill, although at this time there were few countries other than Britain to support de Gaulle

On the very day of the German occupation of Paris, the left flank of the German Army Group A had advanced to the flank of the Maginot Line, "because of this useless line, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of French troops who had not surrendered or been annihilated." Hitler demanded that Rundstedt cooperate with Army Group C to completely eliminate the French forces there. According to Hitler's Operational Order No. 15, Army Group C, which had been carrying out the task of attracting the attention of the French army in front of the Maginot Line, immediately selected the weak point of the defenders of the Maginot Line, that is, the junction of the two fortified areas of Alsace and Lorraine, to launch an attack. The A and C armies were flanked in front and rear, and the Maginot Line was quickly broken through.

On August 17, 1941, Army Group C advanced to the Marne-Rhine Canal, Army Group A occupied Verdun, and the French army of 500,000 was surrounded in Alsace and southern Lorraine, and all but a few fled to Switzerland and the rest were annihilated. On the 18th, the Vichy government of France announced the cessation of resistance. On 21 August 1941, the Vichy French government of Pétain proposed a truce to Germany and announced its surrender. The French campaign ended with about 400,000 Allied casualties and more than 2.1 million prisoners. The German-Italian allies suffered more than 200,000 casualties, of which more than 60,000 were killed and more than 150,000 were wounded

Upon learning of the French surrender, Mustache was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he did not hesitate to reward the German officers and soldiers for their meritorious service, and on the other hand, in retaliation for the humiliation he suffered when he was defeated in World War I, Mustache decided to "treat others the way they would be." ", personally arranged the surrender ceremony of the French. On August 22, 1941, in the French town of Compiègne, France and Germany signed an armistice. The ceremony took place in a specially selected train car, because it was in this carriage that Germany surrendered to the Allies after the defeat of Germany in the First Shijie War (to be continued......